Great news out of my home state of North Carolina tonight. The state House just passed a new bill ending cashless bail, and they did so with a bipartisan veto-proof majority. The Senate passed the bill yesterday.

Here’s more on the vote from CNN:

In response to the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on Charlotte’s light rail system, the North Carolina legislature gave final approval Tuesday to a criminal justice package that limits bail and seeks to ensure more defendants undergo mental health evaluations.

The Republican-penned bill also could help restart executions in the state.

The House voted 82-30 to accept the omnibus measure passed by the Senate on Monday, sending it next to Democratic Gov. Josh Stein. Stein, a former attorney general, has said he supports some pretrial reforms following the fatal August 22 attack on 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether Stein would sign the bill into law or veto it. A Stein spokesperson said he was reviewing the measure.

Unlike Monday’s party-line Senate vote, over one-third of House Democrats present joined all Republicans in voting for the bill Tuesday. The margins signal any Stein veto could be overridden.

The New York Post tells us what some of this new bill does:

In the Tarheel State, House Bill 307 would modify current state law as it relates to pretrial release conditions for suspects “charged with a violent offense.”

Among other changes, the bill would get rid of cashless bail and add an “aggravated sentencing factor” for crimes committed against public transportation passengers.

The bill also includes an amendment that would “seek to revive the death penalty” in the state, which has had a de facto moratorium on capital punishment in place since 2006.

Even if Stein vetoes the bill, it should be easy enough to overturn with that big of a majority. Good for North Carolina. Hate it took the murder of a beautiful young woman to make it happen.